These people ignored the law, destroyed the man's business, and handed the assets over to a foreign government who will never return them. How about I kick in your door in the middle of the night, steal all your assets and hand them over to the Chinese government and say it's punishment for all the slave labor that goes into producing half the goods you and your family use to survive?
As opposed to the United States where they can perform no-knock raids in the middle of the night and kill innocent little kids and former marines with zero consequences?
A lot of their stock has to do with actual fab/assembly moving out of the valley. Not that most of it hadn't ten or fifteen years ago. It's a great place for finding beforetime artifacts,tools or parts. In some cases they were failures, in others production just moved or liquidated after going out of date.
The United States has enough proven reserves of coal to last for several hundred years at our current rate of consumption. Even then we don't really run out, it just gets progressively more expensive to extract.
Given that gasoline can be made out of coal, even if the middle east went dry tomorrow we wouldn't really be out of oil, we'd just be out of cheap oil...
I'm looking to buy a '75-'76 Trans Am, last years of the 455 4-speed engines.
With a little coaxing, I should be able to boost it up to nearly 500 HP....9 MPG or so would be about right.
In stock form maybe, modified not so much. With the smaller 403 I only eked out 10-11mpg. It was a great car when gas was a dollar. For valuable bonus points I suggest appropriate bumper stickers "My other car is a Prius", "Save the rainforest" and/or "Elect Gore/Leiberman in 2000"
TIG is certainly a lot more difficult than SMAW, (stick or MIG), but I'd consider OA the most difficult, depending on what you're doing with it. TIG welds, OA does all kinds of crazy stuff.
That said, hardly anyone (professionally) uses OA for much besides cutting and brazing and you generally don't need a strong shade to do it so visibility is already pretty good.
This is spot on. The problem is that too many people in the media, politics and the general population still think that the stock price is a reliable indicator of the actual financial health of the company. These days it's more likely just the outcome of whatever algorithms the automated trading systems are using.
Which is in of itself hilarious. What exactly is that valuation based upon? It's certainly not price/book or price/earnings or the DOW wouldn't be above 13K right now.
I would be very curious to know how these robots decide to speculate because it smells highly like a combination between insider knowledge of future trades (ex. knowing what mutual funds are buying/selling what before it happens) and old fashioned pump and dump.
Long term investing still works, but if you buy at the top of the market (such as say, now-ish) good luck netting any profits for quite a while.
Mt. Fuji lava is not prone to flowing nicely. It just increases in pressure until it's time to blow it's top and spew ash everywhere.
I would expect something like this to work well in places like Hawaii, but instead they opted to divert building houses to places where the lava doesn't flow.
But I have a tendency to put stuff in a cart and not buy it right away.
I wonder if that works in my favor?
It did actually, right up until you made those keyword searches for fois gras and expensive german automobiles. Double-Click (and by extension Google or any of their paid advertisers) sees all.
This clearly means Google does not find that behavior evil, leading me to wonder what other things they consider 'not evil'. Is charging differential pricing evil? Is censoring search results evil? How about raising the dark lord Nyarlathotep?
I believe that torque converters are generally less efficient than the use of a mechanical clutch
Yes and no. Torque converters are not used exclusively anymore, they have an integrated piston to 'lock up' the converter at cruising speeds. The computer can also control the shift-points to maximize fuel economy.
As a fun fact this technology is not new, it was available on Studebaker and Packards in the early 1950's...but I guess when gas costs a nickel nobody cares about this sort of thing.
I still choose a stick, because I'm a sad panda when I can't downshift into a turn.
Also: What's so impressive about SMB on the Sega Saturn? That's a 32 bit CPU and ought to be able to handle an 8 bit game easily.
Two of them actually..and 6 slave processors. That's why it was so hard to develop for...but in his case the BASIC interpreter took care of all of that nonsense.
A judge isn't supposed to be hassling and berating the lawyers on both sides like this.
Really? I think a great many legal issues could be solved if judges would just look over the case, decide it doesn't have merit and tell the prosecutor to GTFO out of here before I hold you in contempt.
Just think about the lawsuits that generated things like "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly" on Superman underwear...or (due to the McDonalds lawsuit) coffee cups everywhere stating "Warning: Contents Hot"
How you store it has a lot to do with how much paper you consume. Modern scanners can discern a lot smaller 'dots' than ye-olde paper tape reels, particularly if read-speed isn't a major concern. Given sufficiently small dots / colors you could store quite a bit of data on your average 8.5x11 sheet.
...however in this case I'm going to go with backup tapes in a Faraday cage, also known as a 'bank vault'.
But I stand corrected. We have never extradited "political criminals" to US. We have sent drug lords and assassins back on occasion.
Poliical criminals? Oh no, clearly Assange is a sexual predator and this has nothing to do with politics. It just happened to come out after the whole wiki-leaks scandal embarrassed US politicians. Pure coincidence I say!
Don't worry. From there he can easily come to Brazil. We have never extradited anyone to US and won't start anytime soon.
Are you quite certain of that? On paper at least the US and Brazil have an extradition treaty in place. I believe that there is an exception for non-naturalized Brazilian citizens, but Assange wouldn't qualify for that.
Likewise the US government has such treaties with basically everyone in South America. (Argentina,Peru, Bolivia...even Venezuela believe it or not).
Not sure guns and bombs *really* solve problems either.
Yeah, WWII got rid of the Nazis and the Japanese warlords, but it set us up the Cold War and lots of regional crises.
In an indirect way they absolutely did. Nuclear weapons made it pretty much impossible for first world countries to make war with each other. Yes there have been lots of regional 'proxy wars' (Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc.) but the alternative is much much worse.
well, the US rewrote the Japan constitution forbidding them from having an (obvious) offensive military capability.
So you're saying giant robots are not obvious?
The other thing to remember is that after WW2, the United States was one of the only first-world countries that hadn't lost their factories and infrastructure in the war. Most NATO countries couldn't produce a lot of these armaments, at least in the short term.
This isn't a new issue, certainly, but the likelihood of being attacked at the neighborhood coffee shop's WiFi was indistinguishable from zero. Now there's an off the shelf tool and cloud service made specifically to break through the security people have been using. This means that even someone who was doing security "correctly" (i.e. using a VPN on a public wifi network) is now at risk from having credentials stolen over the wire.
Other than giving Microsoft the finger, this doesn't seem like it's contributing much to the discourse. I'm disappointed in Moxie, he's placed a whole lot of people at risk just to say he could.
I disagree. The ONLY way this is going to get fixed is with that kind of exposure. Unfortunately many companies don't seem to care very much about security until it starts costing them money or becomes public knowledge.
Also increasing key lengths is really just a band-aid anyway. It makes cracking slower of course, but with FPGA/GPU boxes they're still vulnerable until you start getting into fairly large key lengths. The things you want in a good public/private encryption scheme are to make the algorithm memory expensive and difficult to parallelize. Blowfish and SCrypt are both good examples of this.
In that scenario even with a complete network breach you're still not going to be able to do much with the data.
In the US we try to squeeze our money out of individuals and let the corporations ride free. This model will need to flip-flop once desk-top manufacturing is the norm. Corporations will need to pay based on revenue - not net-income.
Yes we will all be on welfare. If that means we get to live the life of a Saudi Prince, maybe it won't be so bad?
Capital is mobile. Why wouldn't these international companies relocate somewhere that they don't pay taxes? This model works in Qatar and Kuwait because the resources are stuck in the ground.
Nevertheless I look forward to your bright future where I lounge in my palatial estate surrounded by beautiful concubines and receive monthly checks.
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As opposed to the United States where they can perform no-knock raids in the middle of the night and kill innocent little kids and former marines with zero consequences?
A lot of their stock has to do with actual fab/assembly moving out of the valley. Not that most of it hadn't ten or fifteen years ago. It's a great place for finding beforetime artifacts,tools or parts. In some cases they were failures, in others production just moved or liquidated after going out of date.
The United States has enough proven reserves of coal to last for several hundred years at our current rate of consumption. Even then we don't really run out, it just gets progressively more expensive to extract.
Given that gasoline can be made out of coal, even if the middle east went dry tomorrow we wouldn't really be out of oil, we'd just be out of cheap oil...
In stock form maybe, modified not so much. With the smaller 403 I only eked out 10-11mpg. It was a great car when gas was a dollar. For valuable bonus points I suggest appropriate bumper stickers "My other car is a Prius", "Save the rainforest" and/or "Elect Gore/Leiberman in 2000"
I claim prior art
TIG is certainly a lot more difficult than SMAW, (stick or MIG), but I'd consider OA the most difficult, depending on what you're doing with it. TIG welds, OA does all kinds of crazy stuff.
flame shrinking, flame bending, heating, brazing, hard facing, soldering, cutting, etc...AND welding
That said, hardly anyone (professionally) uses OA for much besides cutting and brazing and you generally don't need a strong shade to do it so visibility is already pretty good.
Which is in of itself hilarious. What exactly is that valuation based upon? It's certainly not price/book or price/earnings or the DOW wouldn't be above 13K right now.
I would be very curious to know how these robots decide to speculate because it smells highly like a combination between insider knowledge of future trades (ex. knowing what mutual funds are buying/selling what before it happens) and old fashioned pump and dump.
Long term investing still works, but if you buy at the top of the market (such as say, now-ish) good luck netting any profits for quite a while.
Mt. Fuji lava is not prone to flowing nicely. It just increases in pressure until it's time to blow it's top and spew ash everywhere.
I would expect something like this to work well in places like Hawaii, but instead they opted to divert building houses to places where the lava doesn't flow.
It did actually, right up until you made those keyword searches for fois gras and expensive german automobiles. Double-Click (and by extension Google or any of their paid advertisers) sees all.
This clearly means Google does not find that behavior evil, leading me to wonder what other things they consider 'not evil'. Is charging differential pricing evil? Is censoring search results evil? How about raising the dark lord Nyarlathotep?
Yes and no. Torque converters are not used exclusively anymore, they have an integrated piston to 'lock up' the converter at cruising speeds. The computer can also control the shift-points to maximize fuel economy.
As a fun fact this technology is not new, it was available on Studebaker and Packards in the early 1950's...but I guess when gas costs a nickel nobody cares about this sort of thing.
I still choose a stick, because I'm a sad panda when I can't downshift into a turn.
We do in fact have bacteria that don't require water...but I don't think they'd make particularly good engines.
I beg to disagree. The year was 2002, Palm Treo = PDA + Phone. I believe this device also featured slightly rounded corners.
Two of them actually..and 6 slave processors. That's why it was so hard to develop for...but in his case the BASIC interpreter took care of all of that nonsense.
Really? I think a great many legal issues could be solved if judges would just look over the case, decide it doesn't have merit and tell the prosecutor to GTFO out of here before I hold you in contempt.
Just think about the lawsuits that generated things like "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly" on Superman underwear...or (due to the McDonalds lawsuit) coffee cups everywhere stating "Warning: Contents Hot"
How you store it has a lot to do with how much paper you consume. Modern scanners can discern a lot smaller 'dots' than ye-olde paper tape reels, particularly if read-speed isn't a major concern. Given sufficiently small dots / colors you could store quite a bit of data on your average 8.5x11 sheet.
...however in this case I'm going to go with backup tapes in a Faraday cage, also known as a 'bank vault'.
Poliical criminals? Oh no, clearly Assange is a sexual predator and this has nothing to do with politics. It just happened to come out after the whole wiki-leaks scandal embarrassed US politicians. Pure coincidence I say!
Are you quite certain of that? On paper at least the US and Brazil have an extradition treaty in place. I believe that there is an exception for non-naturalized Brazilian citizens, but Assange wouldn't qualify for that.
Likewise the US government has such treaties with basically everyone in South America. (Argentina,Peru, Bolivia...even Venezuela believe it or not).
Apparently you haven't been to Nebraska lately. Taking ten cars and burying them nose first in the desert & calling it "art"
In a nursing home on Monster island?
Stop! Or I'll say... "stop" again.
In an indirect way they absolutely did. Nuclear weapons made it pretty much impossible for first world countries to make war with each other. Yes there have been lots of regional 'proxy wars' (Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc.) but the alternative is much much worse.
So you're saying giant robots are not obvious?
The other thing to remember is that after WW2, the United States was one of the only first-world countries that hadn't lost their factories and infrastructure in the war. Most NATO countries couldn't produce a lot of these armaments, at least in the short term.
I disagree. The ONLY way this is going to get fixed is with that kind of exposure. Unfortunately many companies don't seem to care very much about security until it starts costing them money or becomes public knowledge.
Also increasing key lengths is really just a band-aid anyway. It makes cracking slower of course, but with FPGA/GPU boxes they're still vulnerable until you start getting into fairly large key lengths. The things you want in a good public/private encryption scheme are to make the algorithm memory expensive and difficult to parallelize. Blowfish and SCrypt are both good examples of this.
In that scenario even with a complete network breach you're still not going to be able to do much with the data.
Capital is mobile. Why wouldn't these international companies relocate somewhere that they don't pay taxes? This model works in Qatar and Kuwait because the resources are stuck in the ground.
Nevertheless I look forward to your bright future where I lounge in my palatial estate surrounded by beautiful concubines and receive monthly checks.
Silicone boobs with mode select buttons? I for one welcome our new DOA physics enhanced overlords.